Quantifying fine‐grained sediment sources in the River Axe catchment,southwest England: application of a Monte Carlo numerical modelling framework incorporating local and genetic algorithm optimisation     

A.L. Collins  Y. Zhang  D.E. Walling  S.E. Grenfell  P. Smith  J. Grischeff  A. Locke  A. Sweetapple  D. Brogden 《水文研究》2012,26(13):1962-1983

Increasing recognition of the deleterious environmental effects of excessive fine sediment delivery to watercourses means that reliable sediment source assessment represents a fundamental component of catchment planning targeting the protection of freshwater resources and their ecological integrity. Sediment tracing or fingerprinting approaches have been increasingly used to provide catchment scale sediment source information, but there is a need to continue refining existing procedures especially with respect to uncertainty analysis during mass balance modelling. Consequently, an updated Monte Carlo numerical modelling framework was devised and tested, incorporating both conventional and robust statistics coupled with random and Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) together with local and genetic algorithm (GA) optimisation. A sediment sourcing study undertaken in the River Axe catchment, southwest England, suggested that the use of robust statistics and LHS with GA optimisation generated the best performance with respect to predicting measured bed sediment geochemistry in six out of eight model applications. On this basis, the catchment‐wide average median sediment source contributions were predicted to be 38 ± 1% (pasture topsoils), 3 ± 1% (cultivated topsoils), 37 ± 1% (damaged road verges) and 22 ± 1% (channel banks/subsurface sources). Using modelling frameworks which provide users with flexibility to compare local and global optimisation during uncertainty analysis is recommended for future sediment tracing studies. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

惰性气体同位素确定地热流体循环深度          下载免费PDF全文

罗璐  庞忠和  罗霁  李义曼  孔彦龙  庞菊梅  王迎春 《地质科学》2014,(3):888-898

地热系统惰性气体同位素地球化学是地热成因研究的重要手段。许多惰性气体同位素都可用于地热系统的研究中,主要目的为揭示热田的热源性质、深-浅层地热流体的内在联系和循环深度等。本文从惰性气体理化特点、样品采集、测试技术及数据等若干方面介绍了惰性气体研究方法,重点探讨了在自由气和溶解气两种形态下,热泉、喷气孔、热水井不同环境下的惰性气体采样方法,还介绍了成熟的惰性气体同位素的测试方法,即利用磁偏转静态真空质谱计分析测试方法,最后基于世界各地典型地热系统的惰性气体测试数据,讨论地热系统的气体来源判别,不同气源的混合比例计算等,进而确定地热流体循环深度。  相似文献   

Results from the first ballast water sampling study in the Mediterranean Sea - the Port of Koper study     

David M  Gollasch S  Cabrini M  Perkovic M  Bosnjak D  Virgilio D 《Marine pollution bulletin》2007,54(1):53-65

The ongoing transfer of harmful organisms by shipping, especially via ballast water transport, may result in a change of biodiversity, alteration of ecosystems, negative impacts on human health and economic loss. Species introductions which cause irreversible consequences to receiving environments and economies call for particular attention. One critical issue is a need to evaluate the quantities and processes of species introductions. Consequently ballast water was sampled on 15 ships calling at the Port of Koper, Slovenia. This was the first ballast water sampling study in the Mediterranean Sea. This paper summarises the sampling results. Samples were analysed for all types of aquatic organisms including bacteria. The results may be considered as background information for an initial risk assessment of future species introductions - an important tool for the implementation of ballast water management measures.  相似文献   

A ground validation problem of remotely sensed soil moisture data   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

C. Yoo 《Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA)》2002,16(3):175-187

 As the use of space-based sensors to observe soil moisture is becoming more plausible, it is becoming necessary to validate the remotely sensed soil moisture retrieval algorithms. In this paper, measurements of point gauges on the ground are analyzed as a possible ground-truth source for the comparison with remotely sensed data. The design compares a sequence of measurements taken on the ground and from space. The authors review the mean square error of expected differences between the two systems by Ha and North (1994), which is applied to the Little Washita watershed using the soil moisture dynamics model developed by Entekhabi and Rodriguez-Iturbe (1994). The model parameters estimated by Yoo and Shin (1998) for the Washita `92 (relative) soil moisture data are used in this study. By considering about 20 pairs of ground- and space-based measure-ments (especially, for the same case as the Washita `92 that the space-based sensor visits the FOV once a day), the expected error was able to be reduced to approximately 10 of the standard deviation of the fluctuations of the system alone. This seems to be an acceptable level of tolerance for identifying biases in the retrieval algorithms.  相似文献   

测震数采仪记录的钻孔应变   总被引：4，自引：1，他引：4  

杨选辉  杨树新  张彬  张国红  刘福生  柳艳智  王勇 《中国地震》2011,27(1):65-71

采用测震仪数采器在昌平台站开展了高频采集实验,对原来1次/分钟采样的钻孔应变仪输出进行100次/秒采样,记录到大量丰富的信息.计算了高频采样获得的应变记录分钟值后,发现与原来的1次/分钟采样变化曲线趋势完全吻合.高频采样获得的应变地震波更加完整,细节更为清晰.通过应变地震波计算得到的震相参数,与前人所得结果一致.与十三陵地震台测震仪记录的地震波比较,二者的波谱相似,且应变地震波中还存在低频成份.  相似文献   

Comparison of rock discontinuity mean trace length and density estimation methods using discontinuity data from an outcrop in Wenchuan area,China     

Qiong Wu  P.H.S.W. Kulatilake  Hui-ming Tang 《Computers and Geotechnics》2011

The equations that exist in the literature to estimate corrected mean trace length and corrected two-dimensional density of a rock discontinuity set using area sampling technique are critically reviewed. The discontinuity traces appearing in an outcrop in Yingxiu area in China are used along with rectangular windows to calculate the corrected mean trace length and two-dimensional density using Kulatilake and Wu’s equations. Similarly, circular windows are used along with Mauldon’s and Zhang and Einstein’s equation to calculate the mean trace length and Mauldon’s equation to calculate the two-dimensional density for the same discontinuity sets using the same outcrop discontinuity trace data. For both parameters, the predictions based on the rectangular window methods were found to be more accurate than that based on the circular window methods.  相似文献   

Robust reconstruction of aliased data using autoregressive spectral estimates     

Mostafa Naghizadeh  Mauricio D. Sacchi 《Geophysical Prospecting》2010,58(6):1049-1062

Autoregressive modeling is used to estimate the spectrum of aliased data. A region of spectral support is determined by identifying the location of peaks in the estimated spatial spectrum of the data. This information is used to pose a Fourier reconstruction problem that inverts for a few dominant wavenumbers that are required to model the data. Synthetic and real data examples are used to illustrate the method. In particular, we show that the proposed method can accurately reconstruct aliased data and data with gaps.  相似文献   

插值公式、相关系数和采样间隔对GRACE Follow-On 星间加速度精度的影响   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2       下载免费PDF全文

郑伟  许厚泽  钟敏  员美娟 《地球物理学报》2012,55(3):822-832

本文基于星间加速度法开展了插值公式、相关系数和采样间隔对GRACE Follow-On星间加速度精度影响的研究. 模拟结果表明:1)适当增加数值微分公式的插值点数可有效提高插值精度. 基于9点Newton插值公式,星间加速度的插值误差为4.401×10^-13 m·s^-2,分别基于7点、5点和3点插值公式,插值误差增加了1.192倍、6.912倍和274.029倍. 2)适当增大相关系数可有效降低星间加速度的误差. 基于相关系数0.99,星间加速度方差为3.777×10^-24 m²·s^-4,分别基于相关系数0.90、0.70、0.50和0.00,方差增加了9.780倍、22.404倍、26.217倍和26.820倍. 3)随着采样间隔增大,星间加速度方差逐渐降低,但卫星观测值的空间分辨率也同时降低,因此合理选取采样间隔有利于地球重力场精度的提高. 4)基于9点Newton插值公式、相关系数(K波段测量系统星间距离和星间速度0.85、GPS轨道位置和轨道速度0.95、星载加速度计非保守力0.90)和采样间隔10 s,利用预处理共轭梯度迭代法,精确和快速反演了120阶GRACE Follow-On地球重力场,在120阶处累计大地水准面精度为4.602×10^-4 m.  相似文献   

Optimal implicit staggered‐grid finite‐difference schemes based on the sampling approximation method for seismic modelling          下载免费PDF全文

Lei Yang  Hongyong Yan  Hong Liu 《Geophysical Prospecting》2016,64(3):595-610

We propose new implicit staggered‐grid finite‐difference schemes with optimal coefficients based on the sampling approximation method to improve the numerical solution accuracy for seismic modelling. We first derive the optimized implicit staggered‐grid finite‐difference coefficients of arbitrary even‐order accuracy for the first‐order spatial derivatives using the plane‐wave theory and the direct sampling approximation method. Then, the implicit staggered‐grid finite‐difference coefficients based on sampling approximation, which can widen the range of wavenumber with great accuracy, are used to solve the first‐order spatial derivatives. By comparing the numerical dispersion of the implicit staggered‐grid finite‐difference schemes based on sampling approximation, Taylor series expansion, and least squares, we find that the optimal implicit staggered‐grid finite‐difference scheme based on sampling approximation achieves greater precision than that based on Taylor series expansion over a wider range of wavenumbers, although it has similar accuracy to that based on least squares. Finally, we apply the implicit staggered‐grid finite difference based on sampling approximation to numerical modelling. The modelling results demonstrate that the new optimal method can efficiently suppress numerical dispersion and lead to greater accuracy compared with the implicit staggered‐grid finite difference based on Taylor series expansion. In addition, the results also indicate the computational cost of the implicit staggered‐grid finite difference based on sampling approximation is almost the same as the implicit staggered‐grid finite difference based on Taylor series expansion.  相似文献   

CST-based first order second moment method for probabilistic slope stability analysis     

《Computers and Geotechnics》2017

Correlated random variables are commonly involved in probabilistic slope stability analysis, such as reliability analysis of slopes with spatially variable soil properties. This paper proposes a simple Correlated Sampling Technique (CST) for generating samples of correlated random variables. The CST firstly produces correlated standard-normally distributed samples through linear combinations of independent standard-normally distributed samples. Correlated arbitrarily distributed samples can then be obtained by the Nataf transformation. The CST was combined with FOSM (named CST-based FOSM) for probabilistic slope stability analysis. The slope reliabilities of a single-layered cohesive soil slope and a high earth and rockfill dam were analyzed to illustrate the CST-based FOSM. These illustrative examples indicated that the CST-based FOSM can accurately estimate the slope reliability indices with considerably fewer simulations (especially in the case of low failure probability) compared with direct MCS, and the slope reliability was sensitive to the correlation of the strength parameters.  相似文献